The Robot Song
(Recorded live before a thoroughly
bewildered youth group; date unknown)

LYRICS

CREDITS

Music and Lyrics: Mark Jeghers
Twisted Noises: Ed Liften, Tim Neblung
Mix: nobody

NOTES

Steve Martin once claimed that "robots are stealing my luggage". Unlike many of his other jokes, that struck me as funny. During my college years, I often amused myself by further developing that absurd idea in my head. Whenever I was bored in class, I'd doodle pictures of robots dragging away metal stuff to dine on, and they were always in lines of three. No one else in class could figure out what I was giggling about.

In fact, little fragments of the song were taking shape in my head. I'd sing bits of it aloud while playing card games with my family. It drove my mom and sister crazy, which, of course, was exactly what I wanted. Ann, however, was not put off by my antics at all; she seemed perfectly content to sit there with me while I rambled on like a raving lunatic. That made me even more certain that I should marry her!

So, now, fast forward several years. It's one of the few times that "Destination" actually played for anyone. We are in front of a youth group at one of the churches in Stockton. And we decide, "Hey! Let's open with that zany robot song! Won't that blow their minds!" Well, it did. I never saw so many jaws drop to the floor in one room. I think we scared a few of them.